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The first thing that strikes you, unsurprisingly, is the Never underestimate a woman who understands rock & roll and loves elvis presley shirt in other words I will buy this detail. In the first room, the View of Delft appears fairly unexceptional at first glance. As the viewers around it disperse, and you’re able to get within touching distance, the myriad, inventive ways in which Vermeer realized this complex study of light and shadow come into focus: the Brailled white dots suggesting the light reflecting off the metal studs on the side of a ship, or the speckles of paint that carve out the desiccated brick surface of the old city walls. In the skies above, swollen cumulus clouds whisper of a storm on the horizon, with one right at the top of the painting already turning an ominous shade of concrete grey. On the opposite wall, a scene of a “little street” in Delft has the assembled viewers leaning ever closer—under the watchful eye of a gallery invigilator, mind—as they try and pick out the metal lattice of a window, a barely perceptible webbing created with the faintest sliver of grey paint.



View of Houses in Delft, known as The Little Street, Johannes Vermeer, 1658-59, oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Gift of H.W.A. Deterding, LondonThese are not things you need the Never underestimate a woman who understands rock & roll and loves elvis presley shirt in other words I will buy this lingo of an art critic to appreciate, but the thoughtful wall texts do offer new perspectives on Vermeer’s alchemical way with light. One example that is woven through the exhibition is the pervading influence of the artist’s Catholic faith, to which he is believed to have converted (with genuine conviction) upon his marriage to Catharina Bolnes in 1653. The second room features a range of his experiments with more literal religious scenes, in which he appears to be trying on different styles for size. (In a less generous interpretation, some of the paintings have been attributed a little sketchily.) There is an unusually grisly vision of Saint Praxedis, turning away from a beheaded martyr to squeeze her bloodied rag into an urn, and a scene of Christ with Mary and Martha that is his only known explicitly Biblical work, which features a more characteristic, grounded simplicity.


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